Quotes About Understanding

And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.

I don't know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don't know why I didn't love her. It's something you can't really control.

there is always something comforting about knowing that you are not alone. That other people feel the way you do. That you are a bit screwed up, but still normal.

I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend.

I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.

Grief is a mystery to be lived through, not a problem to be solved

It was a mistake. You didn't try to hurt anyone.

You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors.

The list of differences was endless, but, in the end, none of them mattered. What mattered was that we completely accepted each other. That I had her back, and she had mine.

Guys aren't so different from us, I think, which no matter how many times I think it will always seem like a remarkable revelation.

As of that moment, we had a secret, and having a secret—even a little one—creates a bond between two people.

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.'

I'm far from fat, but her using me as a sounding board on this topic is like me complaining to a blind woman that I have to wear contacts.

He was just the wrong guy for me at the time. Nothing more, nothing less.

I guess she's been like this since her arrival here, maybe even our whole lives, but sometimes when you know someone well, you don't see them as they really are. So I honestly think I've managed to ignore this fundamental part of her personality, perhaps not wanting to see my closest friend in this light.

or are there always shades of gray when it comes to matters of the heart?

Because sometimes you just can't see the things that are closest to you.

It's the feeling of belonging. Right here where I am. In this house. With my parents and Charlotte. The people who know all my stories, from the beginning. The people who know me.

thinking that so much of how we see the world is a matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and wanting and hoping rather than really deep-down believing.

Tell me what's going on in your world, Joey

If I ever wrote a book on divorces, one of my first suggestions to parents would be: Get rid of the second (or third) wife in the background when you're talking to your child—at least some of the time.

Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

And Ronan was making me think, yes, and he was making me think about thinking (Hegel would be pleased), but my task as his myth writer was still to understand my son as a person and a being who was independent of me and yet dependent on my actions, my attention, my love.

I just had a word with him. Timmers and I have this little understanding. He behaves himself and he gets to keep his front teeth.